NASA aims to launch the SLS rocket in just 2 months - Ars Technica
The US space agency has spent a long, long time designing, developing, building, and testing the Space Launch System rocket.When NASA created the rocket program in 2010, US legislators said the SLS booster should be ready to launch in 2016.
During a pair of news conferences last week, NASA officials declined to set a launch target for the mission.However, in an interview Tuesday with Ars, NASA's senior exploration official, Jim Free, said the agency is working toward a launch window of August 23 to September 6.
Next up is rolling the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for final launch preparations, including arming the flight termination system.We're probably pushing ourselves a little bit, but we're not going to do something stupid." On this timeline, the SLS rocket could roll back to the launch pad in less than two months.
This Artemis I mission will not carry any humans on board but rather serve as a test flight for the massive rocket, the largest built by NASA since the Saturn V the agency used to fly the Apollo Program.